The Research Institute of Road and Urban Railway Engineering of Beijing University of Technology mainly carries out the tasks of higher education, scientific research and social services under the support of discipline of Road and Railway Engineering. In 1961, the major of Highway and Urban Road Engineering was established in Beijing University of Technology. In 2000, Beijing University of Technology obtained the professional authority of Road and Railway Engineering from the Ministry of Education of China. In 2007, the discipline of Road and Railway Engineering became the Key Discipline of Beijing. In 2009, the Institute of Road and Urban Railway Engineering was established in the College of Architecture and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology. In 2013, the Department of Road and Urban Railway Engineering was established in the College of Metropolitan Transportation, Beijing University of Technology. In May 2020, the Research Institute of Road and Urban Railway Engineering was newly established in the Faculty of Architecture, Beijing University of Technology. The research institute currently has 10 full-time teachers, including 2 professors, 4 associate professors and 4 lecturers.

Since 2000, a total of more than 20 million RMB yuan has been invested in the construction of road engineering laboratories. The laboratory area has reached 400 square meters. It can carry out experimental and research work in the fields of asphalt and asphalt concrete, cement and cement concrete, road subgrade and base course materials, pavement performance evaluation, road and railway structural mechanics analysis, road alignment design, intelligent road paving, railway operation management and others. The main research fields include:

1. The modern optimization design theory of road alignment, the safe operation and maintenance technologies of traffic infrastructures;

2. The service performance evaluation and life prediction of pavement materials, and new technologies of green road materials;

3. The intelligent evaluation of road durability, the theory and methods of decision-making for maintenance;

4. New theory and technologies of smart road;

5. The optimization technology and strategy of urban railway transit operation management

Team Members

Prof. Jinxi ZHANG

Interest Areas: Pavement materials (cement concrete and asphalt concrete), pavement performance and maintenance management, road and traffic safety, road structure durability.

Phone: 010-67391583

Fax: 010-67391583

Email:zhangjinxi@bjut.edu.cn

Prof. Zhiqing ZHANG

Interest Areas：Theory and method for road safety design, subgrade and pavement structure and materials, road maintenance management and decision making, planning and evaluation of highway integrated hub and highway network.

Phone:86-10-67396590

Fax: 86-10-67391509

E-mail: zhangzhiqing@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Chao WANG, Associate Professor

Interest Areas: performance modeling of asphalt pavement, sustainable pavement materials, asphalt pavement and environment.

Phone: 010-67391583

Email:wangchao@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Yue HOU, Associate Professor

Interest Areas: Intelligent transportation infrastructure systems; evaluation, monitoring and maintenance on transportation infrastructure and materials; self-powered sensors for transportation infrastructures; characterization on infrastructure and materials using advanced sensing and AI technologies.

Email:yuehou@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Hui YAO, Associate Professor

Interest Areas: Construction materials, pavement Mechanics, asphalt and asphalt mixtures, recycling materials, molecular dynamics (MD), discrete element method (DEM), smart maintenance for pavement.

E-mail:huiyao@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Jin WANG, Associate Professor

Interest Areas: LiDAR point cloud processing, remote sensing image processing, and machine learning in transportation and civil engineering.

Phone: 010-67396460

Email:j.wang@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Peng JING

Interest Areas: Pavement/railway granular materials (Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior), reclaimed materials in pavement.

Phone: 010-67391583

Fax: 010-67391583

Email:peng.jing@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Dandan CAO

Research field: Constitutive model for pavement materials, pavement analysis and design optimization, pavement performance evaluation and maintenance.

Phone: 010-67391583

Fax: 010-67391583

Email:Dandan_Cao@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Yan XU

Interest Areas:Optimization for train timetabling and passenger control problem, train operation management, simulation and analysis for the characteristics of train traffic flow.

Phone: 010-67391583

Fax: 010-67391583

Email:yxu@bjut.edu.cn

Dr. Guoqiang SUN

Interest Areas:Multi-scale characterization of pavement materials, sustainable smart pavement materials (self-healing asphalt, bio-asphalt, conductive course for snow melting, porous asphalt concrete), R&D of high-performance modified asphalt.

Phone: 010-67391583

Email:gqsun@bjut.edu.cn

Road Engineering Laboratory